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President Trump has floated cutting tariffs on China from 145% to 80% ahead of a weekend meeting as he looks to deescalate the trade war.

A new Democratic-led Congressional caucus focused on energy and housing appears to have employed multiple frequently-used GOP policy points in its introductory press release Thursday.

Republicans are targeting 25 "vulnerable" House Democrats with a digital ad blitz offering to buy them plane tickets to El Salvador, saying they should take 'plenty of selfies.'

Teenage boys are experiencing increasing rates of loneliness and suicidal thoughts -- which is having a direct impact on their achievement in school. How can schools address that? The final part in On Point’s special series “Falling Behind: The Miseducation of America’s Boys.”

Facing a session with nearly two dozen bills that would curb transgender rights, advocates say "we will win eventually."

The attack occurred over Passover, which Shapiro was observing by having the traditional Seder meal the night before.

With a month to go in the legislative session, the House and governor have one approach, and the Senate has a better one.

Former Gov. Tom Wolf created a child advocate role in 2019 to prevent abuse in state facilities, but its lack of legal authority has led to turnover.

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A man who authorities said scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and broke into the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion where he set a fire is in police custody at a hospital after an unrelated medical event, state police said Monday.

Shapiro said that if the suspect was trying to stop him from doing his job, then he’ll work harder, and he added that it won't stop him from observing his faith.

The man faces charges including attempted homicide, terrorism, aggravated arson and aggravated assault, authorities said.

The fire caused a “significant amount of damage” to a portion of the residence, state police said.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were evacuated overnight from the official governor’s residence after someone set fire to the building, police said Sunday.

Experts say Malone’s win in Lancaster County is a good sign for Democrats as the midterms approach, but they cautioned the Pennsylvania Senate seat could flip back.

The councils were meant to help more residents have a voice at L.A. City Hall, but voter participation has been declining for a decade.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing a 10% baseline tax on imports from all countries and higher tariff rates on dozens of nations that trade with the United States. Trump says the move will revive the American dream, give a boost to United States manufacturing, and lower prices for consumers.During his speech at the White House on Wednesday, Trump held up a chart showing the United States would charge a 34% tax on imports from China, a 20% tax on imports from the European Union, 25% on South Korea, 24% on Japan and 32% on Taiwan.The tariffs follow recent announcements of 25% taxes on auto imports, levies against China, Canada, and Mexico, and expanded trade penalties on steel and aluminum. Trump has also imposed tariffs on countries that import oil from Venezuela, and he plans separate import taxes on pharmaceutical drugs, lumber, copper, and computer chips.These tariffs are already impacting businesses and customers in the Philadelphia region. Ross Choate, a dealer principal at Norristown Chrysler Dodge Jeep and Ram, told NBC10 that he’s seen an uptick in online traffic, and sales surged in late March during a time of uncertainty. “We don’t know, you don’t know what’s going to happen, but there’s a pretty fair certainty that the price will be going up to some degree, and the existing units that are in stock are still at the old pricing level still have incentives on them still have some markdowns so people feel like it’s an opportunity to take advantage of the lower pricing before it happens, and they’re probably correct,” said Choate. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was in Bethlehem on Wednesday, focusing on the potential tariff impact on craft brewers like Fegley’s. “It’s a big unknown as to what’s going to happen. We have ingredients that come from Canada and other things that are sourced that potentially going to be increasing overnight,” said Jeff Felgey of Fegley’s Brew Works. “I’m not sure why the president of the united states wants to do this to our small biz wants to harm our main streets, but here in Pennsylvania, I give a damn about our small businesses,” said Shapiro. Even the cycling industry will be impacted by the new tariffs. NBC10 spoke to Stephen Bileky, owner of Bilenky Cycle Works, who said higher prices mean it will be harder to sell and less money to make. “No manufacturer wants to hear about raw materials or like components going up,” said Bilenky. Bilenky and other owners, such as Samih Alameri, owner of Activate Fix and Flip, had to decide whether to raise their prices or lose money.“I was thinking, can I eat some of the tariffs, the 20% or whatever, 15% for the meantime, we’re just gonna eat that losses,” said Alameri. Most of the phone repair products inside Germantown’s Activate Fix and Flip come from China; Alameri tells NBC10 they’re not passing the price on to the consumer since their products aren’t high in price.“I don’t think it’s gonna be too much different on a $10 item or $30 item,” said Alameri. But for Bilenky’s Bikes, the high-value product means high price increases.“If it’s a $3,000 bike, goes up $750, then next thing you know, you’re getting close to 4,000, and so that’s a big price difference,” said Bilenky. The difference impacts either the business or the consumer.“If you can’t make money and you know can’t pay the bills, it’s gonna be tough,” said Bilenky. Bilenky tells NBC10 that bikes could rise in price at least 25% and it could happen within just one month. Meanwhile, Alameri said his phone repair store will eat the costs for now, but that could change.Sign up for our Breaking newsletter to get the most urgent news stories in your inbox.

The House GOP's campaign committee is taking aim at congressional Democrats for voting against a measure to fund the federal government through Sept. 30.

Once upon a time, the conservative position on economics was easy to describe: It was in favor of free markets.

Political scientist M. Steven Fish explains that otherwise Trump is "going to seem like a boss"

The Board of Pardons reopened the case after opposition from the victim’s family arrived two months after its first vote.

Aging officials in Philadelphia took months to get Luen Ng help before she was killed. She’s one of 1,511 older adults who died in the state in 2023 with open abuse and neglect investigations.

Welcome to What the Media Missed, where we dig into the many examples of legacy media malpractice that disgraced the nation’s front pages this week—while highlighting how Daily Kos goes past the spin to uncover the real horror stories of our new Trump era.Medicaid in dangerAsk Donald Trump his position on Medicaid and he’ll swear up and down that Republicans won’t lay a finger on the program, which covers over 66 million Americans. Legacy media outlets have largely given Trump the benefit of the doubt—an odd choice given the president’s tendency to just make shit up.Despite his pledge to “love and cherish” Medicaid dominating the headlines, Trump this week backed a House GOP spending plan that would enact sweeping cuts to the health insurance program. Daily Kos dug into what those cuts mean for elderly and low-income Americans, including benefit cuts so extreme that many states will have no choice but to force currently insured seniors out of the program. Meanwhile, the top 1% of American earners would reap the benefits, in the form of a tax cut. Trump must be breathing a sigh of relief over all the soft headlines he and Speaker Mike Johnson are getting, because a new Associated Press-NORC poll found that cutting Medicaid remains one of the most unpopular ideas in America. Roughly 70% of respondents said the government should either preserve or expand Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, while majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents all said protecting those programs should be a priority. Johnson and House Republicans cross those voters at their own peril.Trump’s embrace of hardline Medicaid cuts may make things harder for him in the Senate, after Trump ally and Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley openly broke with the president to condemn the idea of gutting the program. Capitol Hill is headed for another entitlement crisis. It couldn’t happen to more deserving scumbags.Ukraine fumbleSpeaking of squishy headlines, the continued institutional surrender of the American media continued this week with a flood of headlines intended to put a normalizing spin on Trump’s most legally outrageous actions. That was especially true of Trump’s stunning decision to align the United States with Russia in its ongoing war in Ukraine, a baffling and sudden strategic realignment without parallel in American history.Even international media outlets got in on the minimization. The BBC described Trump as “very frustrated” that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declined a deal that would award half of his nation’s lithium and titanium to American companies. In fact, this was no “deal”—it was an attempt by Trump to use Ukraine’s war weariness to rob the country blind. What did Republican leaders have to say about Trump’s outrageous and potentially criminal quid pro quo offer? Who knows! Outlets like The New York Times treated the silence of GOP lawmakers as standard operating procedure instead of a shameful dereliction of duty.As it turns out, it wasn’t that hard to find Republicans who were frustrated and even furious at Trump’s decision to betray one of the GOP’s core foreign policy principles. Daily Kos found examples from lawmakers including Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska ,and Rep. Mike Lawler of New York, among plenty of others. The criticism was there the entire time—the legacy media just didn’t bother trying to find it. The sanewashing of Steve BannonLegacy media’s love of conflict was on full display this week when crackpot anti-government podcaster Steve Bannon blasted Elon Musk as a “parasitic illegal immigrant” trying to “play-act as God.” The Times eagerly took Bannon’s bait, framing the feud as a battle between the chaotic Musk and the principled, cost-cutting conservative Bannon.Back in reality, Daily Kos saw the Bannon-Musk feud for what it really was, noting that “Steve Bannon totally isn’t jealous of Elon Musk.” The piece offered some psychoanalysis that the legacy media missed—including the growing realization among stalwart MAGA loyalists like Bannon that tech billionaires like Musk have displaced many of Trump’s earliest acolytes. It doesn’t help matters that Bannon, a repeat federal felon who pleaded guilty last week to yet another fraud case, is now too politically toxic even for Trump. Bannon’s indignation over Musk’s misbehavior isn’t a matter of principle—it’s the frustrated rage of a man who’s realized too late that he’s been pushed to the side. That must come as an especially bitter pill for Bannon, who played a lead role in connecting Trump’s MAGA movement with the tech billionaires who are now poised to take it over. In the end, Bannon was iced out of power for breaking his own cardinal rule: Never look for honor among thieves.Headline Watch with Oliver WillisOh (no), Canada ...xThe New York Times is the problem. Look at this dumb shit in this dumb paper. (Peter Baker, of course)— Oliver Willis (@owillis.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T12:04:36.721ZCampaign Action

The rules prevent a health system from pushing dismissed doctors out of town and keeping patients in the dark, but critics say it's still too narrow.

The internet is a Wild West of AI fakes. Even Zoomers like me need education.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to seek more money for public schools and public transit when he delivers his third budget proposal to lawmakers Tuesday. Shapiro is also expected to reprise his support for legalizing marijuana and introducing taxes on skill games viewed as competitors to casinos and lottery contests.Shapiro’s budget proposal could approach $50 billion for the 2025-26 fiscal year beginning July 1. He was scheduled to address a joint session of the General Assembly at 11:30 a.m. in the House of Representatives as he delivered the document to lawmakers.Passage will require approval from Pennsylvania’s Democratic-controlled House and its Republican-controlled Senate.Shapiro is under pressure from education allies and Democratic lawmakers to marshal billions more for schools in response to a court decision that found Pennsylvania’s system of public school funding violates the constitutional rights of students in the poorest districts.Shapiro’s budget delivered a substantial increase for schools this year, while lawyers for the schools that sued the state are asking for a $1.3 billion increase for the next fiscal cycle, or almost 13% more.Shapiro also has said he’ll seek tax breaks to subsidize the cost of building new power plants and more money for rural health care services. He also is expected to make another pitch to legalize marijuana to skeptical Republican lawmakers.Meanwhile, Shapiro has been adamant about preventing cutbacks by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, the Philadelphia region’s public transit agency struggling to regain ridership lost during the pandemic. Republicans resisted giving Shapiro his full request last year, prompting him to divert one-time federal highway funds to stave off near-term service cutbacks and fare increases. One Shapiro-backed idea to pay for it is taxing the skill games that are popular in bars, convenience stores, pizzerias and standalone parlors around the state.Shapiro is up against numerous pressures. These include entreaties to boost pay for workers who care for older adults and disabled people while also navigating growing deficit projections, a slow-growing economy and a shrinking workforce.Counties say the mental health services network they administer is on the verge of collapse and nursing home operators say they’re getting rid of beds because they can’t afford to staff them. Meanwhile, home care providers say it’s getting harder to find and keep workers, making it harder for people who need their services to receive them.Shapiro does have a cushion of about $10.5 billion in reserve, thanks to federal COVID-19 relief and inflation-juiced tax collections over the past few years.However, this year’s $47.6 billion spending plan required about $3 billion of surplus cash to balance, eliciting warnings from Republicans that the state must slow the pace of spending or risk depleting its surplus within several years.The state is projected to bring in less than $47 billion in tax collections in the 2025-26 fiscal year — likely well below what Shapiro will propose in spending, especially after the state issues refunds.___Follow Marc Levy on X at: https://x.com/timelywriterSign up for our Breaking newsletter to get the most urgent news stories in your inbox.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is expected to seek more money for public schools and public transit when he delivers his third budget proposal to lawmakers

New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, seen at a hearing last month, ended the fourth quarter with $1.5 million in her campaign coffers.

Gov. Josh Shapiro will deliver his third budget proposal to lawmakers next week, a plan that’s expected to seek substantially more aid for the poorest public schools, emphasize frugality and push for more aid to public transit and legalize marijuana.

Democratic Reps. Don Davis, left, and Jared Golden, here in the Cannon House Office Building tunnel in April 2024, represent districts won by Donald Trump. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)

Mike Parson, whose term as Missouri governor ends on Jan. 13, says he’s left his successor “a really good foundation to build on.”

ATLANTA — Georgia farmers have had a rough go for the past few years. They were just recovering from 2018′s Hurricane Michael when Hurricane Helene hit in September, damaging thousands of acres of crops throughout the state. That’s on top of financial devastation left in the storm’s path, which can severely stress their mental health. “Fertilizer, fuel, labor, anything that’s farm related — ...

Jayden Daniels was not worried when he and the Washington Commanders trailed the Philadelphia Eagles by 14 points after just seven minutes, and the rookie quarterback was similarly undaunted staring down a 13-point deficit going into the fourth quarter, long after Jalen Hurts was sidelined with a concussion.

Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, said Congress should not be “sneaking new member perks into must-pass legislation.”

Pennsylvania’s governor traveled extensively as a Democratic surrogate in 2024, spending money on consultants, private flights, ritzy hotels, and more.

North Carolina legislative Republicans are closing in on enacting a measure that would erode powers of the incoming governor and other statewide Democratic officials who got elected last month

Dental insurance should be a support system for patients — not a source of frustration, confusion and financial risk, says Tulsa dentist Larry A. Smith.

Sports dominate American culture. Stadiums dot our city skylines and the games are among the top shows on TV. Republicans should embrace this competitive culture of success.

Trump’s campaign promises included mass deportations of people in the country illegally, and his history includes rolling back environmental regulations and setting the stage for state abortion bans.

Republicans need to win just two out of the 12 remaining undecided races to secure a majority in the House of Representatives.

There are 23 races in the U.S. House of Representatives that still being counted; 10 of which are in California.

Control of the House has yet to be determined, as a number of critical races remain too close to call, leaving lawmakers — and voters — waiting to see which party will hold the majority next year. The sprint to 218 seats, however, is nearing the final stretch, after a handful of additional races were called [...]

Voters in New York City’s suburbs could play an outsized role in determining control of the U.S. House as Republicans cling to seats they won two years ago by seizing on fears of crime and Democrats try to claw them back by warning that a right-wing Co...

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